Police have intensified security operations in schools across southern Metro Manila by increasing visibility and strengthening coordination with school authorities, following the recent shooting incident involving students in Tacloban City. Southern Police District (SPD) director Brig. Gen. Glenn...
Following the tragic school shooting incident at the San Jose National High School in Tacloban City, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Juanito Victor “Jonvic’’ Remulla strongly called for amendments in the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act. Remulla claimed that...
Senator Loren Legarda says the involvement of minor-suspects in the tragic Tacloban City school shooting must not "diminish their accountability" for the incident. "This attack demands that we face a hard and disturbing reality. The suspects are themselves minors," Legarda said in a statement. "By...
TACLOBAN CITY – Police filed on Tuesday night three counts of murder, three counts of frustrated murder, and multiple counts of serious physical injuries against the 15-year-old child in conflict with the law involved in the shooting at San Jose National High School on Monday. The CICL and...
The allegations that the two Grade 9 suspects in the San Jose National High School shooting incident were victims of bullying must not be ignored. Akbayan Party-list Rep. Chel Diokno has placed a spotlight on this detail as he called on the Department of Education (DepEd) to address the persistent...
Intelligence gathering should not be conducted on students, Malacañang said, contradicting Vice President Sara Duterte 's view that the Tacloban City school gun attack exposed the government 's failure to recognize the importance of intelligence gathering. "Ibig sabihin, estudyante dapat...
Barbaric and fundamentally wrong. That 's how House Deputy Minority Leader and ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. Antonio Tinio described Senator Robinhood "Robin" Padilla 's proposal to lower the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 10 years old. This, even as public emotions remained...
There are indications that the suspects in the deadly gun attack at a school in Tacloban City were "heavily influenced" by online content, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said. In a Palace press briefing on Tuesday, June 23, PNP spokesperson Colonel Allen Rae Co said that authorities are...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday, June 23 announced that the Senate Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations, and Gender Equality will launch its initial inquiry into the fatal shooting at the San Jose National High School in Tacloban City, Leyte on July 1, 2026. Hontiveros said the Senate...
TACLOBAN CITY — While families of the slain and wounded students in the school shooting here cry for justice, the National Police Commission will conduct its own motu proprio investigation to determine the administrative liability of a female police officer linked to the fatal shooting...
Vice President Sara Duterte on Monday, June 23, called for stronger school safety measures following the deadly incident at San Jose National High School in Tacloban City, saying the tragedy should serve as a wake-up call for the government to improve learner protection and threat detection. “The...
The two minors planned the gun attack in Tacloban City school more than a month before the opening of the classes, a police official revealed amid the ongoing investigation to determine the motive behind the rare school shooting in the country. And what surprised the police investigators was that...
